THE TARIFF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8755, 18 March 1890, Page 2

THE TARIFF.

Tiie following decisions by tho Commissioners are ' n '.Tiftt«d :— 'Alfred Bhlrtings (stripes), sb coloured cotton shirtings... ... ... Preo. Blue weft shirtiugs, aa coloured cotton shirtings ... ' ... ... Krea. Boiler tubes. Hanged, as parts of boilers 20 percent. Uollular cloth, us cotton piece-goods ... 10 percent. Darning waivers, puLeut, us hardware... 20 per cent. Kpaulette3,a3 wearing app.irel, &v. ... 25 percent. Jars, containing potash, as earthenware 20percent. -'Mould-board plates, as parts of ploughs Free. Taper, imprinted, ruled with money columns, r.s stationery n 0.0. ... 15 per cent. Potash, bicromato of, as dye stuffs and dyeing materials, ciude ... ... Free. Prints, photo-lithographs, nnd chromos, fort'nucy box maklnt;, as a. and m.5.... Free.

THE LONDON MARKETS.

Tho Now Zealand Loan aud Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) havo rooelved t,bo followiiiK telegram from their LoiuLm olliee, dated 11th inst: —

•• Tsllow.-There is a fair denmud. Pino mutton is worth 25s fld, and good beef 21s per civt. Frozen Meat: Mntton-Mmkpt iirm. Canterbury mutton i 3 worth 4fd, and Wellington .I'll per 11). New Zealand beef, forequartcra worth 3J.1 mid hindquarters 4£il per lb. Wheat and Flour: Market very depressed."

LAND SALE.

Messrs Wright, Slepuamoii. and Co , in conjunction with Messrs Held, Mnclenn, ami Co., report having offered by order of tha mortgage tills afternoon, at their wool stor.'s, High stieet, the wellknown Granton (arm, West l'aieri, containing 252J ncre3of the be>t laud on th" plain, and being sections 1 and 2, block 11, and sections 4, 6. and 6, block I, West Taieri district; also, the props:ty known as tha Hill'farm, containing 1533 acres In tho MaunKatun district, being sections 3, 4, ft. 6,11,10, and 22, block IX; 1,3,3.4,18,17,13, block X; and section 1, block XI. A very large number of settlers from the Talerl district were present at the auction sale, aud at up to ££0 per acre thero wns brisk bidding fonQraton, at which price it was withdrawn, but subsequently It was sold privately to Mr Jfobe.-t ltobliuon, of Wnipori, nt an advance of 10s peraci-o. Thero wns not much competition for tlie Hill farm, and It wns withdrawn at Ms per acre. Inter in the day, however, Messrs William and Ninlau Heid, of Maungat.ua, purchased it at 15s.

SALE OF ORESCENT SfTATS.

A report having bpcorne current to the effect that it is the lutentiou of the owners to plica a high or Hcciti'.iui valuation upon I ho abovo property, we are ii'.bruoted by the agents, Meisw Knid, Maclean, and Co., to state that nothing of the liind is contemplated, but that the iwprvos (if nny) will be so low that it is expeoled ovory lot will be sold.

OTAGO STOOK EXCHANGE.

Yjkstisiuu.y'3 Quotations. Stocks. Buykiis. Sjulbiis Banks: v d. b. d. Colonial ... ... U 0 « 0 National ... ... 35 0 36 0 Insurance: ' Colonial ... ... 6 0 6 3 national ... ... 10 tl 17 o Standard (ex div) ... 13 0 ]3 6 Union... ... ... 25 0 — Shipping - UniouStoam ... ... 230 0 — Coal: Kaitangats ... ... 295 0 300 0 Walton Park ... ... 4 B — Westport ~. ... .is 0 50 0 Mercantile: JDuuedlu C. and S. Tramways 0 9 10 Milburn Lime and Cement 27 I) — IMosgicl Woollou Factory ... — 80 0 luorntngton Tramway ... 10 (! 10 9 Jfew ZerJar.d Drug ... ]f> 9 20 0 ' Otago Daily Times ... -- 100 0 Hoslyn Tramway ... 32 0 — Otrtgo Dredging Companies: Golden Bar (20a pnid up) ~. — 10 0 Talisman (15s paid up) ... 10 S — Upper Waipori (Ss 9d pud) 4 0 — do (10s paid) 7 0 — Wakatipu (7s6dpaid np) ... - 4 0 Sluicing Companies: PairMaid,Westport(lospa!d) — 10 0 Hoscue ... ... — 2 0 Scandinavian Water Kaca — 500 0 United Hercules (£1 paid up) 51 0 — do (contributing) 4S 0 — Otago Quarts Companies: Blue Slate ... ... 4 0 Eureka (10s paid up) — 40 Mount Highlay (5s pd) ... — 2 0 Tipperary ... ... — a 0 A. BARTLKMAIf G- S. BROniUCK Johs Davib a. llkbcmah Waltbb 11-iSlop K. 11. Lbary asd Co. Lkslik A. ifonatAK ' O. S. IIEHVEa Joax Reid ato Soxs 15. C. Bbyxouw •J. K. bOOTT C. IHEXUIAKH. JaMEO HOWIMON

VOS'i1 OfFICS NOTIUS3.

Mails cltue at ths Ohlsf Poet Office, Dnnadtn (cub-ie-2t to any nacejssrj- alterations), as wilder i— ■For Northern P.irta of Kew Zealand, overland, daily, ».t 10.30 a.m.. at C.P.O. Lata letters, guard's raa, Morth train, at 11 a.m.

THI3 Day (TUE9DAY), Maboh IS, DIHBOT MAIL SEEVICE.

The steamor liuapehu will leave Wellington for Plvmnjif.h.on Hie 20th Inst-... Mail (for sneeif.ll v addressed con^pendenco only) closes here !„ lSth. Duo in London April 30th. Parcels for tho United Kingdom, &c, per Kuapehu, will close at this office at 9.3-j a.m. on the 18th.

W-IDNEJDAY, MAECH 19. For Northern ports'of New Zealand, per Wairarapi, at 3 p.m. Late letters, guard's van, Port train, at 3.3d p.m. '

Thursday, March 20.

For Southland, Auatrallan Colonies, via Hobart, India, China, Japan, Continent of Europe, United Kingdom, &c, per Mararoa, at 2.15 p.m. Money orders (for Australian Colonies only), reelstored letters, and newspapers at 1.15 nm B Late letters, C.P.0., at 2.25 p.m. Letters for tha UnitaU Kingdom must be specially sprained, and pftidls per Joz. Parcel post mail for tho Australian Colonies (except New South Wales and Quaenslaud) wi'l o o7e two hours before the letter man

Fkiday, March 21. SAN FBANOISOO MAIL SEBVICS,

ior Northern ports of New Zealand, tho United Kingdom, via San Francisco, Continent of Europe, Samoa, Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, South America, and West Indies, &c. at 10 a.m.

..^SXS." 5 P--ra°-yorders Boo'c pcokeis and newspapers at 9 a.m. on Frl-

Late letters, bearing an additional single rate of postage as a late fee (ad), can ba postld at tho mad van attached to the North train, leaving Dunodin Bailway station at 11 a.m. on the 21st The above mail -will oloae at tho branch nost DSce Dunedln North, for money orders at 4 p™ registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 20th, and for letters at 9.30 a.m., and newspapers at 5 a m on the 21st. At the South Dunediu office, for monsv S. rd0™"t'1 P-"n"»n ( s«gi«t«red letters at 5 p.m. on the 20th, and for letters and newspapers at 5 a.m. on If of*; At the Port Ohaim^ office at 8 a.m. on MitfiKffloth..* p'm-BDd r^istered i *U 6 RbOTO maU WIU bB du° in London on 28to

New Zealand, per Penguin, at 4.20 p.m. Late letters, 0.P.0., at 4.30 p.m.

lac Janet Bamaay will leave the Bluff for Preservation Inlet on Wednesday. The Htuemoa will leave tlia Bluff for the West Coast Sounds on or about Saturday, 22nd iast. (Signed) HDW. D. BUTTS, Chief Postmaster.

Chief Post Office, Dunedin, March 17,1890.

ABSTRACT OP SALES BY AUCTION Tina dat.1 B, 0. Eeynoids ANDCo.,atHooms—Drßnerv &o 5 J- A- Pa«k Co- on the premises, OctagonWBI w HT; Stkphexsox, aot Co., at Graaton farm, l^X^tTfo CMle' Bh6ep-plg9-Johx Smudiby, at Balclutha-Sheep.